Pay-For-Performance is a health care payment system developed to try and address the shortfalls of the current reimbursement payment system. Incentives are paid to hospitals‚ physicians‚ and clinics for the improved quality of care for patients‚ efficiency of care‚ and improved health outcomes of patients. Pay-For-Performance is part of the improvement of quality as well as a cost management tool. Currently the reimbursement system that is in place pays for services rendered prompting providers to
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In the United States‚ equal pay for equal work has been a controversial topic since the Equal Pay Act of 1963 was passed. It was aimed to abolish wage disparity based on sex. In a study in 2015‚ female full-time workers made only 80 cents for every dollar earned by men‚ a gender wage gap of 20 percent. The Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR). As indicated by their studies‚ if change proceeds at an indistinguishable moderate pace as it has for the last fifty years‚ it will take 44 years—or
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Running head: INCENTIVE PAY‚ BENEFITS‚ CHEVRON Incentive Pay‚ Benefits‚ Chevron: A Compensation Strategy that Motivates Terra Pegram Strayer University Chevron at a Glance With operations in more than 100 countries‚ more than 62‚000 employees and 5‚000 service stations‚ Chevron is one of the largest integrated energy companies in the world. The company operates across the entire supply chain‚ from exploration and production to refining‚ marketing‚ and transportation of an
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Pay-for-Performance Executive Summary: Pay for performance is a program that measures performance based payment arrangements which reward money to a specific team or individual for improved behavior or outcomes. " The impetus behind P4P originated in the response to rising medical costs‚ growth in chronic care conditions‚ and consumer demands for efficiency and improvement in the quality of care (Bruno‚ 2012)." This allotted for various performances based programs to arise in the health care
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becoming a teacher. The school district refused to give her the equal amount of pay that men received‚ even though Lampe was the sole earner while her husband was in graduate school. Later‚ Lampe went into public school administration and found once again that her gender — and marital status — was a factor in her pay. While trying to negotiate her salary‚ one of the board members told her‚ “You don’t need as much pay because your husband is a professor and you have enough money” (Owens). Today in
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The debate for equal pay for women is not new‚ for it has gone on for decades. Women and men have fought for women’s rights since 1848. Women have since gained the right to vote‚ Roe vs Wade‚ and in 1963 women earned the right to be paid equally to their male counterparts. Women are supposedly paid equally‚ yet women make 79 cents to every dollar a man makes. While there are many factors that contribute to women being paid less than men; there are also many reasons why we need to help fight to close
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Equal Pay Act of 1963 The Equal Pay Act of 1963 established the requirements that women should receive equal pay for their amount of work. The history of this act was to end gender-based discrimination in labor wages. Throughout history women have been paid less than men even when employed in the same jobs. It was accepted in the U.S that men deserved to earn more money than women‚ even if their work was exactly the same. The mindset was that men were the heads of the households and they are the
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(2014) gave numerous examples of pay structures with an emphasis towards pay-for-performance and mix-pay models as a trending leader in supporting the changing workforce demographics. To support this theory‚ I searched for evidence and found that pay-for-performance models were not necessarily the strongest contender for employee satisfaction; but maybe employee satisfaction is not one of the key elements to success for some companies? The lingering uneasiness with pay-for-performance models led me
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things being implemented to rectify the wage gap‚ such as‚ raise of the minimum wage‚ paid sick days and pay transparency (Grimley). The Center for American Progress recently released a report called 7 Actions that Could Shrink the Gender Wage Gap it states‚ “While nearly two-thirds of mothers are breadwinners or co-breadwinners for their families‚ women made
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Men‚ Women‚ and Unequal Pay For many years‚ women have been treated unfairly in the workplace; whether it is through a form of discrimination‚ harassment‚ or unequal pay. Women who are in the same position are paid less than their male counterparts. This is a major issue in the business world but it is also a problem in sports and the medical field. This problem is known as a gender gap‚ any difference between the characteristics of men and women in areas such as educational accomplishment‚ wage
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